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Originally posted by Spanky
What exactly does that term mean? What these terrorists are striving for does not seem to me fascist as far as I understand the word.

These people are religious fanactics. Religious fundamentalists that want to create a muslim theocratic state. I think many conservatives, that feel that there is a threat to religion in this country, don't want to be associated with these terrorists, hence the term islamofascist. The reality is that these terrorists are motivately solely by religion so the term does not make sense.

Term that are appropriate: Terrorist (which, by the way, the attack on the Cole was not a terroist attack), fundamentalist, religious, theocratic, muslim, and islamist. But I don't think Fascist is an appropriate term.

Clinton used to try and spin terms like this. Instead of tax cut, he called it a tax "scheme". Calling someone an islamorfascist strikes me as the same sort of spin.

I once tried to introduce the term "'Slamis" to replace the then-fashionable slur "camel schtuppers." It never really caught on.